Posted on 07/04/2023 11:50:46 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's sparked outrage with a July 4th tweet calling for the United States to return 'stolen indigenous land' starting with giving Mount Rushmore back to the Lakota Sioux tribe.
The company, which was founded by longtime Bernie Sanders allies Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenwood but has since been sold to British multinational Unilever, tweeted the message to its 494,000 followers.
'This 4th of July, it's high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it,' the company's official account wrote.
Outrage was swift on social media following the tweet, with many disgusted by what they saw as anti-American sentiment on a day meant to celebrate the United States.
One commenter compared their statement to Bud Light partnering with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney - which saw the beer giant lose upwards of $20million in sales after causing massive controversy - and using the hashtag #boycottbenandjerrys.
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How can land be stolen from people who have no concept of land title? To the Dakota (Sioux) Indians, the land was where the buffalo grazed, and their “happy hunting ground”, not a place to raise subdivisions and industrial sites.
Now, “land use”, i.e., the highest and best purpose for which the land may be used, is another interpretation of the “bundle of rights” that are included in the grant of land title, and so recorded at the government offices where these records are kept. And “the government” is whomever administers the civil control of a given tract of real estate.
That land was “stolen” from the indigenous people fair and square. Possession is nine points of the law, and all.
What took the customers so long? Many of us boycotted Ben and Jerry’s decades ago because of their insane liberalism.
The United Sates made a generous settlement offer to the Lakota, which would have made them a prosperous tribe instead of poverty-ridden. But the Lakota reused to take the money, instead holding out in the futile hope of getting the Black Hills back. I don’t think Unilever is going to do it for them.
Bent & Jerky are the epitome of ill educated modern proggies. Natives did not view land as something that could be “owned”, therefore it could not be stolen. It is territory - land, water, air - to be inhabited and shared but not comingled with some other tribes or Europeans. They have their run down reservations which were initially prescribed in the early 1700s and they’re free to wander the millions of acres of national parks and monument areas sans usurpation of white man tech. It would be better quality living than any Democrat controlled city.
You first, jerry and ben.
B&J’s is owned by Unilever.
If that wasn’t enough to get people to dump the brand...
That may be your definition, but it is not the Jewish definition. If you were born of a Jewish mother, you are Jewish no matter what you do or do not practice or believe.
I was not always Orthodox. In my youth, I used to love Chinese sweet & sour pork. When I stopped eating pork, did I suddenly become Jewish? My Jewishness was then expressed, but it is always latent, even in a Leon Trotsky or a Mayer Lansky, whether expressed or not.
This is wrong. In the Ft Laramie treaty the US granted sole ownership of the area including the Black Hills to the Lakota. Then gold was discovered in the hills which led the Congress to pass a new law depriving the Lakota of their treaty rights, and even ownership. The Supreme Court in 1980 ultimately recognized this unlawful taking, declared it to be one of the most egregious injustices ever perpetrated by the government, and ordered the government to make “just compensation” for the land. The US offered a settlement but the Lakota had objections to somehow the terms and refused to take the settlement. And that’s where it stands today.
We used to love Sealtest back in western NY. That was 50+ years ago, and I don’t know if it even exists now.
Must avoid ice cream. Type 2 but on the mend.
First this company is still doing large business in Russia, we don’t have to go back hundreds of years to find “stolen” land.
There is not a country on the face of this earth that can claim possession of a land from the beginning of time and all countries present borders are relatively new compared to time man has been on this earth. The funny part is there is one country that IMO has historical claims for a land far longer than any I can think of and that is routinely challenged and that is Israel
Second,your point is spot on, let’s start with the “native Americans”, if the account of the land bridge is correct, does it really make sense that the “americas” were uninhabited when they came over? Most likely not so that is the first invasion of the “americas”
I call it recentism, a mental condition where one only goes far enough back in history to back their claim or grievance
For the sake of argument let’s say the americas were uninhabited at the time, but since then and before the “white man” arrived this land was under constant state of war. These people were not living in peace on lands set and divided all that time ago. The warred, they invaded, they enslaved,. Control of lands switched hands constantly and not through diplomacy but war. My. Rushmore and the black hills can trace at least 7 different tribes claiming control and ownership of those lands all through war. So who is the “rightful” claimants of that land.
Mexico often makes claims for parts of the US, fair enough because until those lands were taken from Mexico the land had been under Mexican control since the beginning of time, right? Of course not, but under recentism that doesn’t matter. The fact is the claimed lands became part of Mexico after independence from Spain. Who took the land from others, and those “others” had undoubtedly taken that land form others who had taken it from others….
The argument is ridiculous, but these are the times we live in. Everyone claims victimhood
Let’s talk historynofnslavery slavery and reparations, nah pointless
Extremely one sided, not interesting for any length of time. This would have been long before Comanches ever had horses and Comanches would not have had the firepower edge they had against white settlers prior to the Colt revolver. Mongol bows were superior to anything in the Americas in every way possible.
“Must avoid ice cream. Type 2 but on the mend.”
I also avoid ice cream. Was up there close to the number for Type 2. I was doing very well with diet — six months of zero carbs. It only brought down my numbers by two digits.
Since it wasn’t a huge help, I stopped zero carbs but almost never eat sugar, rice, potatoes, pasta, or bread. Or ice cream except for carb balance once in a while. (I cheated bigly at 4th Of July BBQ.)
Like “ greenies” like algore, Kerry living in multiple mansions, flying around in private jets…. Go for thee not for me. I’m important 😎
Favorite is decraprio flying thousands of miles to accept his “I’m saving the world award”….
What seems is never what is
I wish I could, but I haven’t bought any of their ice cream for about 30 years already.
B&J Ice Cream. Before they sold out, B&J was good...now it is another crappy big name ice cream, pure trash.
I’m doing well with periodic fasting and avoiding the really bad stuff.
LOL, I was going to say, I have already been boycotting Ben and Jerry`s my whole life, and I am getting pretty old.
On the globalists’ animal farm, to paraphrase Orwell, “some pigs are more equal than the other pigs.”
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